Teachers’ empowerment, acknowledgement necessary – GTU, ministry agree

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) and the Ministry of Education agree that teachers need to be empowered and acknowledged for their roles in nation building.

But while the GTU has called on the Government of Guyana (GoG) to empower teachers by respecting them enough to honour the de-bunching agreement signed in 2011 by the previous administration, government has said it will be acting on the recommendations made by the present commission of inquiry